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Yes, I can hear you, Clem Fandango!
I’ve generally heard 26.04 isn’t doing too hot right now, and I always thought there wasn’t an officially supported upgrade path until things are more stable in the new release, but maybe that’s Ubuntu proper and not Kubuntu.
I haven’t gotten a notice to upgrade, however. Also on Kubuntu 24.04.
Did you upgrade or is it a new install?
I thought upgrades weren’t officially available until August.
I mean it seems like their rights are deteriorating nearly everywhere…
your link is a little broken, my friend!
https://gitflic.ru/project/magnolia1234/bpc_uploads
Also to anyone wondering, this project isn’t on some random Russian website for no reason at all.
It was chased off the Firefox add-ons/extensions page with DMCA claims, it was chased off Gitlab with DMCA claims, and it was chased off Github with DMCA claims.
It literally cannot survive on US corporate servers because it will get taken down again and again for DMCA violations.
It’s still $199 for me, which is the price I remember it being for a few years now but maybe I am wrong.
This is why I want one of these little motherfuckers so god damned badly.
I’m so glad that none of it’s components have been hit hard by the AI tech market disaster, price point still the same so far. (crossing fingers for it to stay the same)
lmao, double posted because I’m half asleep, deleted the comment and changed the text to say “dummy you dumb” to myself because I felt stupid for double posting and my deleted comment gets removed for a rule violation because I was shitting on myself for accidentally posting twice in a top level comment instead of adding to my original comment via an edit. Bravo.
On the other hand, Sweden requires you to be physically present and able to acknowledge the charges against you before any proceedings can occur.
Which is why Julian Assange was holed up in that embassy for so long, to avoid heading to Sweden to face charges.
Ask Kim Dotcom
…Seriously though it depends on which countries the host country has extradition treaties with.
I have multiple monitors from different manufacturers. The setup I have completely breaks screen blanking for energy saving. I’ve spent over two years on this issue now and I’m pretty sure it’s hardware related on the monitor side. When power saving is enabled, despite two years of research, the screens power back on almost immediately, never staying off for more than a second or two. I’m poor and can’t afford new ones, so my solution is to… use a blank screensaver instead to save my screens from burn-in.
I’m on Kubuntu 24.04 and I got xscreensaver working in Wayland.
You have to log into an X11 session first and set up xscreensaver how you want it. Once it’s set up and working, log out of the X11 session and log back into the Wayland session.
Go to the System Settings and look for Autostart. Make an autostart entry for xscreensaver here. Then check the xscreensaver.desktop file that created and make sure it looks like this:
[Desktop Entry]
Comment[en_US]=
Comment=
Exec=xscreensaver --no-splash
GenericName[en_US]=
GenericName=
Icon=xscreensaver
MimeType=
Name[en_US]=XScreenSaver
Name=XScreenSaver
Path=
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
TerminalOptions=
Type=Application
X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false
X-KDE-Username=
X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=xscreensaver
As long as this is set to autostart, you will have a working xscreensaver in Kubuntu, if nothing else. I cannot confirm it working on any other systems and you absolutely do need both X11 and Wayland as sign in options for this to work. If you want to change settings you will have to switch back to X11 or I use scripts to edit the .xscreensaver configuration file.
For example I wrote two small python scripts for changing the length of time before the screen saver activates, and use cron to run them in the morning and evening. This is the one for the morning:
import os
import sys
import fileinput
# Read in the file
with open('.xscreensaver', 'r') as file:
filedata = file.read()
# Replace the target string
filedata = filedata.replace('timeout: 0:05:00', 'timeout: 1:00:00')
# Write the file out again
with open('.xscreensaver', 'w') as file:
file.write(filedata)
The morning script changes the timeout to five minutes, and the evening script changes is to an hour, making it a simple find and replace a string for both since we’re just rotating numbers.
and this is what it would look like in your crontab:
0 7 * * * python3 /home/yourusername/screensavermorning.py
My solution was to set up xscreensaver how I wanted it in X11 and then start it via CLI as a background app on system startup for wayland.
You can’t manage screensaver settings from wayland, but you can force it into working.
I’m on Kubuntu 24.04
I winced while writing it
Nobody wants Kurds in their way.
…I’ll show myself out.
You make a pretty solid case yourself, pardner.
Cursed.